Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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I don’t know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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Any medium powerful enough to extend man’s reach is powerful enough to topple his world.
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Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide.
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Humans are communications junkies. We just can’t get enough.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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